Elbright Vaug'han

Elbright Serpentus Vaug'han

To those who say that our world consists only of those sixteen rectangles we call countries, I say you're the barmy ones! There's life out there, beyond the seas, and I aim to find it!
Spoken by Elbright Vaug'han shortly before the well anticipated disaster that was his first venture into the Beyond.

Dear ol' Elbright is an absolute madman who comes from a long lineage of madmen. It is perhaps unfortunate that each successive generation has focused on a different kind of madness, and as such most remain unnoticed until it is too late to prevent them from having offspring and perpetuating the stereotype.
So in a way, Elbright's very public meltdowns are a boon to the future generations of Vaug'hans who will no longer need to be born.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

From an early age, Elbright showed a fascination with The Great Beyond. Since everyone knows venturing outside the allotted bounds of our world is rather foolish, most of those in authority over young Elbright simply laughed at him, assuming that he would grow out of his need to see more than what the world offered.
As such, most of them missed his small initial forays into the Great Beyond, which turned out successful in that he didn't die. Elbright decided that this was a good sign and thus announced his grand expedition.
In Elbright's defense, most of the people who mocked him were, in fact, wrong. He didn't die. Everyone else did, and he came back three years later an absolute fool who had to be persuaded to wear pants. He tried again, three times before his death (of old age, somehow). Each time, he did not manage to get out of sight of the shores of our great continent.

Employment

Aside from a brief career in food service (that I am told ended in someone nearly losing an eye), Elbright spent his entire life claiming the career of "explorer."